CorgiShinobi Posted September 19, 2018 Report Share Posted September 19, 2018 Hey now, two things: 1. Andrew Garfield is worst Spider-Man, hands down. Watched the films again and he's way too cool for Peter Parker and he's quite a jerk as Spider-Man. 2. Pizza Time! The stealth sections are pretty damn exploitable once you get how forgiving the AI is at detecting you. Problems is it can get buggy, at least for two sections I played as Miles. One wouldn't let me exit the area for some reason, so I got caught and was brought back to a different area of the map. The other, assuming you're in Act 3... Rhino was walk cycling into the crates I was hiding behind. I have video of this and I couldn't do anything aside from getting caught. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted September 24, 2018 Report Share Posted September 24, 2018 Yeah the game is pretty buggy at times. Last night I was trying to stop a bunch of Saber men, cleared them all out but didn't get my crime tokens. Eventually I realized a jetpack guy had spawned INSIDE a building and I couldn't get to him. Similarly, once on a rooftop, some enemies came out of a door, just as I got pushed into the door, I got stuck in an empty small room with no way out. And they're both bad Spider-Men. Tobey was too meek. Spider-Man should be cracking jokes, quipping the bad guys. Andrew was closer to that. Tom Holland is a vast improvement but as someone who grew up reading the comics and watching the 90s cartoon, the Spider-Man depicted in this game is much closer to what I feel Spider-Man should be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetalCaveman Posted September 24, 2018 Report Share Posted September 24, 2018 Metro Last Light, trying to get the good ending before VC4 comes out. Halo CE, for some reason I decided it would be a good idea to play on heroic, and also get all skulls and terminals at the same time, The Library was a thing, and Two Betrayals is not much better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted October 1, 2018 Report Share Posted October 1, 2018 Really enjoying Pathfinder: Kingmaker. If you liked the Infinity Engine games, Pillars of eternity, or the Neverwinter Nights games from Obsidian, then this is for you. It used the Pathfinder ruleset which is based on DnD 3.5. Unless you are a diehard CRPG fan, I'd wait a month for them to iron out some of the bugs and to smooth out some of the issues the game has with telling the player about very important concepts after it's too late. The bugs I have encountered are annoying, but not game-breaking. The ones that bother me the most are mis-translated menu text the English-as-a-second-or-third-or-fourth language devs put in as placeholders. The actual writing in the game is pretty good, though. It's also a hard but fair game, mostly. At normal difficulty you have to have a good handle on how to deal with enemies' immunities, strengths, and weaknesses fairly early on. You also need to plan for enemies' debilitating attacks more than in similar CRPGs. Since I am a veteran of CRPGs and have a sort of instinctual feel for the ins and outs of DnD 3.5, it did not take me long to adjust. The kingdom management portion is handled well, though I lost 6 hours of my current game to a fuckup in which I did not notice that my kingdom was doomed. You can set management to automatic to prevent this sort of thing, but I like the management stuff, so I loaded an old save and powered through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blink_fps Posted October 2, 2018 Report Share Posted October 2, 2018 Multiplayer: PUBG Battlefield 4 Escape from Tarkov Ironsight Ring of Elysium Elder Scrolls Online Single-player: DOOM Fable - The Lost Chapters Mist Survival Witcher 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted October 3, 2018 Report Share Posted October 3, 2018 I just started Shadow of the Tomb Raider tonight (PC, natch). It's crazy how much better it runs than Rise did, while also looking way better. I'm able to get a completely solid 30 fps at nearly 4k (3360x1890) with literally everything maxed out. It also somehow feels better than 30 fps did in Rise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetalCaveman Posted October 3, 2018 Report Share Posted October 3, 2018 Valkyria Chronicles 4, after getting a C rank on a story mission I've been running skirmishes trying to level up my snipers and lancers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vecha Posted October 5, 2018 Report Share Posted October 5, 2018 (edited) Decided to play through all of the mainline Dragon Quest series(probably gonna ship 9, and definitely 10). Currently half-way through with the 4th. Really enjoying the series, kinda wish it got popular instead of FF. Edited October 5, 2018 by Vecha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMW Posted October 11, 2018 Report Share Posted October 11, 2018 I wouldn't recommend skipping 9. That's one of the very best Dragon Quest games. It's a radical departure from the traditional formula, but it's not like it's poorly executed or anything. And the story still hits that great melancholy beat that the best Dragon Quest games do. The only reasons to skip DQ 9 are that you don't have a DS/3DS to play it or because you're bummed out you can't get the free extra content anymore since the Nintendo wifi DS system went down. If you're going to skip one, skip 7. So so so much bloat. Good content is in there! But I'm not sure that it's really worth the slog to experience it. Also DQ 4 is my favorite and every JRPG ever should steal its structure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMW Posted October 11, 2018 Report Share Posted October 11, 2018 Currently playing Sonic Mania. Never really played old Sonic games. I love it! At first I hated it. The physics are so bizarre. Just trying to walk up a mild incline is pure suffering. Every motion at low speed feels like molasses. So I can see why someone wouldn't like that. But THEN I started to get a little better at it. And the levels started forcing me to be better at it too. Figuring out some jump timings, how you jump off slopes, how you can change jump angle with charge spin, etc. And now that I'm kind of into this, I'm starting to have these awful elitist thoughts. "Ah yes. Lesser platformers aim to give you control that is precise and simple to interface with. You can understand Mario's jump arc in seconds. Such games are for the unwashed masses. Sonic is a more refined sort of platformer, that requires much greater investment and understanding up front and is subsequently much more rewarding for those with proper understanding of the form. Those who dislike 2D Sonic merely are unable to appreciate it's esoteric momentum based pleasures." Oil Ocean sucks though. Haaaaate that level. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted October 11, 2018 Report Share Posted October 11, 2018 Sonic Mania is like the idealized version of the old school Sonics, it's better than any of the Genesis ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayc4life Posted October 14, 2018 Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 just got an Xbox GamePass trial on PC so I could justify downloading Forza Horizon 4, playing a ton of it, then probably never playing it again. That was the plan, but now I might end up actually buying it, because oh man, it's scratching that itch that the Criterion open world driving games scratched, but with a ton more licensed cars and a livery editor. I dunno if I'll end up actually buying it though. My wife and I, along with our flatmate, are thinking of going thirds on an Xbox One for Christmas. They want to play the new Assassin's Creed and the Spyro remasters, but don't want to do it on my PC, despite me offering to give it up to them in order to do so. Probably for the best, I can't imagine the PC handling multiple save files very well. So when that day comes, I'll probably get the paid GamePass so I can play Forza on either the Xbox or PC then, and they'll have a bunch of other stuff on there too to pick up and play without having to go spending $60 a pop, plus whatever in DLC after the fact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted October 17, 2018 Report Share Posted October 17, 2018 I'm currently playing Assassin's Creed: Odyssey. And I guys, I'm happy to report that it's the best game I've played since Spider-Man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted October 17, 2018 Report Share Posted October 17, 2018 I'll probably do like I did with Origins and get it in March for $30. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted October 17, 2018 Report Share Posted October 17, 2018 7 hours ago, TheMightyEthan said: I'll probably do like I did with Origins and get it in March for $30. Yeah, as much as I enjoyed Origins I'm really glad I waited until it dropped to a reasonable price. I don't see any need to get Odyssey until I can get all the content at once for less than the base game costs right now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted October 18, 2018 Report Share Posted October 18, 2018 I really didn't enjoy Origins. I didn't like the main character. Egypt, outside of pyramids, was not that exciting to explore. I didn't like that the RPG mechanics felt halfbaked. This addresses all of my concerns and honestly, might be the best Ass Creed game. Sorry Syndicate and Black Flag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baconrath Posted October 29, 2018 Report Share Posted October 29, 2018 I'm a scrub at Soul Calibur VI lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMW Posted October 30, 2018 Report Share Posted October 30, 2018 I've been doing this thing where I just buy 1 new smallish platformer game every week or two and work through it then buy another one. It means I'm spending about $10 a week and I've been quite happy. So far my progression has been: 1. The Messenger. I made a thread about it. It's okay. But not my favorite. Could potentially buy the sequel that they set up at the finale. Also what's with indie games that took forever to make setting up sequels? The Messenger, Iconoclasts, and Axiom Verge all do this and then there's been nothing on any of these sequels because tiny team development takes forever. 2. Steam World Dig 2: It's super good! Everyone seems to agree on this point. What's most interesting to me is how they mix fixed level design with open ended level design. I've never seen anything quite like it. The challenges are fixed, but the player gets free roam to dig through a lot of the environment. So you always need to overcome the stuff, but the exact sequence and difficulty of the jumps ends up determined by how smart your dig path is. Steamworld Heist was good, but I could play a new Dig game like this every year. 3. Iconoclasts. It's a collection of good parts that maybe don't go great together? The big focuses are story and puzzles. But it's an exploration platformer type game. So you end up stopping for lots of talking and stopping for lots of tricky puzzles. It's good story and good puzzles, but I never really got into a flow with this one. Weird pacing. But still overall good! The game is very smart about realizing that it's not an action game or a platformer game really and tailoring your upgrades and challenges to match. This is 100% a game to play on easy. The action element is unimportant so just make it negligible to rush through enemies faster. Beating them is not the point. 4. Sonic Mania: Super good! It's still beholden to the old games in some ways that we could probably move on from. I don't need green hill zone, I don't need to restart stages over and over to make attempts at a secret zone for a chaos emerald, I don't need to die if Sonic ever gets "pinched" by a moving platform even by a pixel. But the levels are great the music is great the controls are great and boy isn't it silly that they brought back MIGHTY and RAY instead of literally any other Sonic characters. 5. the Mummy Demastered: I just started this one. It's interesting. It almost feels like Castlevania 4 more than anything. Your character is a great big clunky sprite, you have limited mobility with punishing enemy knockback on contact, and the gameplay is all about setting up attacks using your 8 degrees of aiming. Fortunately Castlevania 4 is super rad so I'm into it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetalCaveman Posted November 12, 2018 Report Share Posted November 12, 2018 Valkyria Chronicles 4. Spoiler I'm sure there'll be some life changing event that will attempt to redeem him, but until that time comes, I kinda want to kill Raz myself, bastard has gotten everyone in danger several times because of his stupid, arrogant, selfish nature, and the fact that Claude seems incapable of stopping him makes it all the more annoying. Claude: Hey, we're a small recon unit and we just ran into a full platoon of enemies, we should sneak out of here and get some reinforcements. Raz: FUCK THAT, LET'S SHOOT THEM AND ALERT THEM TO OUT PRESENCE, FORCING US TO FIGHT A LOSING BATTLE WERE WE COULD ALL DIE, YEAH!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted November 12, 2018 Report Share Posted November 12, 2018 Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna ~ The Golden Country I honestly don't look forward to the story unfolding with this being a prequel and all... gameplay wise, this has improvements over the base game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayc4life Posted November 25, 2018 Report Share Posted November 25, 2018 Looking forward to getting back into streaming post-Thanksgiving, after my family goes back home, so I can sink into some more games. Before the break, I'd finally started Furi and completed the first two fights, and I've set myself a goal of having that be the first game I complete front-to-back on stream. The incentive of playing through them on camera is a good motivator to help me get through my backlog, and I hope to continue this going into 2019. I'm also dipping back in and out of Monster Hunter World at least once a week to keep up with the event schedule. Lunastra got added to the PC version this weekend, and the Christmas holiday event is coming up soon, and bringing Arch-Tempered Kirin with it, making it the first Arch Tempered monster in the PC version. Which is cool, but I just want Behemoth from the Final Fantasy XIV crossover event. Those games are what I'm mostly streaming, but off-camera, for funsies, I'm occasionally dipping into my original Hitman content, which I've imported into Hitman 2. You don't need to have actually bought Hitman Season 2 in order to do so, you just need to download the free tutorial mission, and it will check your account once you launch the game for the first time, and if you have the Season 1 content, you'll be prompted to quit the game in order to download the Season 1 content. (Makes no difference if you still have Hitman 1 installed, it's a fresh download, not copying one folder into another, sadly). And I boot up Fire Pro Wrestling World the odd time here and there, too. Oh, and I'm still playing Pokemon Go when I'm out and about. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetalCaveman Posted November 25, 2018 Report Share Posted November 25, 2018 Destiny 2, so far it's been pretty fun, and my PC is able to run it better than expected, was almost tempted to buy The Forsaken while it's on sale but then I remembered I only know one person who still plays so... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted December 29, 2018 Report Share Posted December 29, 2018 ffs, i was just on RDR 2 and was sat on my horse well back from a train when it killed me and the horse without ever touching me. When it reloaded, I had a new horse. The horse I'd had since the start of the game , through all the fights and highs and lows is gone forever cos of some whack-ass collision detection. I had to quit the game and really am pissed off enough at the moment that I might need to take a break from it for a day or two, but then I'll just be sad when I go back and see my shitty replacement. Definitely left it for the evening at any rate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 30, 2018 Report Share Posted December 30, 2018 How old was your last save before the one it loaded? I had it do that to me with my favorite gun, back when buying a replacement was a significant chunk of my money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baconrath Posted December 30, 2018 Report Share Posted December 30, 2018 I like Xenoblade Chronicles 2 so far but the the gachapon thing is a bit of a yikes pseudo random numbers were a mistake 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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